. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. MONOCOTY'LEDONS AND DICOTYLEDONS 243 is often hard. Usually a perianth is present, but with no differentiation of calyx and corolla, and the flower parts are quite definitely in " threes," so that the cyclic arrangement with the characteristic Monocotyledon number Fig. 254. A fan palm, with low stem and crown of large palmate leaves, which have split so as to appear palmately branched.—From " Plant ; 134. Aroids.—This is a group of nearly one thousand species, most of them belonging to the family Aracece. In our f
. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. MONOCOTY'LEDONS AND DICOTYLEDONS 243 is often hard. Usually a perianth is present, but with no differentiation of calyx and corolla, and the flower parts are quite definitely in " threes," so that the cyclic arrangement with the characteristic Monocotyledon number Fig. 254. A fan palm, with low stem and crown of large palmate leaves, which have split so as to appear palmately branched.—From " Plant ; 134. Aroids.—This is a group of nearly one thousand species, most of them belonging to the family Aracece. In our flora the Indian turnip or Jack-in-the-pulpit {Arismma) (Fig. 235), sweetflag (Acor^is), and skunk-cabbage (SpnpJo- carpus), may be taken as representatives ; while the culti- vated Calla-lily is perhaps even better known. The great display of aroids, however, is in the tropics, where they are endlessly modified in form and structure, and are erect, or climbing, or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coulter, John Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton and company
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